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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH the door of her motor drawn up b the curb. Bhe saw him instantly andj from the first their eyes met. It was a horrible moment for Joan. What It was for him she could tell by the tense pallor of his keen, bronzed face. Thaj eyes she had not seen for such an agony of years, the strange, deep, lris-- l colored eyes, there they were nowj searching her. She stopped her heart In Its beating, she stopped her breath, stopped her brain. She became for( those few seconds Just one thought i I have never seen you. I have neverj COriKlGUT BX RATHAUINE NtlVLl.V IUKT. Continued. later he said doubtfully, "Then youll 23 carry through your purpose of not letlie found her done up In an apron ting Pierre know you?" Yes. I've made up my mind to and a dust-ca- p cleaning house with astonishing spirit. She and the Bridget, that. Thats what Ive got to do. He who had recently been substituted for mustnt find me. We cant meet here Mathilde, were merry. Bridget was In this life. Thut'8 certain. There sitting on the sill, her upper half shut are things that come between, things d face like bars." She made a strange gesout, her round, laughing through the pane she was ture as of a prisoner running his finpolishing. Jane was up a ladder, dust- gers across the barred window of a cell. "Thank joii for wurning me. ing books. She came down to greet Morena, Thank you for telling me what to do. I think lie will nd he saw regretfully the sad change She smiled faintly. In her fuce and bearing which his arknow me, anyway, she said, but I rival caused. Bridget was sent to the wont know him. Never, never!" kitchen. Jane made apologies, and sitThat night the theater was late In ting on the ladder step she looked up emptying Itself. Jane West had acted at him with the look of some one who with especial brilliance and she was When called out again and again. expects a blow. What is It now, Mr. Morena? Have she came to her dressing-rooshe wir he lawyers begun to She did not flushed and breathless. lie had purposely kept her In the change her costume, but drew her fur dark, purposely neglected her, left her coat on over the green evening dress to loneliness In the hope of furthering she hnd worn In the last scone. Then the purposes of Prosper (Jael. she stood beforq her mirror, looking I havent come to discuss that, herself over carefully, critically. Now Jane. Soon I hope to tinve good news that the paint was washed off, and the for you. But today Ive come to give flush of excitement faded, she looked you a hiut a warning, in fact to haggard and white. Her fuce was verj prepare you for what I am sure will thin, Its beautiful bones long sweep be a shock. of Jaw, wide brow, straight, short She was flushed and breathYes? nose sharply accentuated. The round ing fast. Her fingers were busy with throat rising against the fur collar on her knee and her looked the feather-duste- r unnaturally white and long. were still waiting. eyes She sat down before her dressing-tabl- e I had a visitor this morning Pierre and deliberately painted her iLandls of Wyoming." checks and lips. She even altered the She rose, came to him and clutched outlines of her mouth, giving It a Pierre? Pierre?" She pursed and doll-lik- e his arm. expression, so that looked around her, wild as a captured her eyes appeared enormous and her bird. nose a little pinched. Then she drew Oh, I must go ! I must go ! Jane, my child he put his arm a lock of waved hair down across the held her two hands In his middle of her forehead, pressed another Pbout her, must do nothing of the kind. If at each side close to the comers of her This took from the unusual you dont want this Pierre to find you, eyes. If you dont want him to come Into breadth of brow and gave her a much your life, theres an easy, a very more ordlnnry look. A coat of pow(simple way to put an end to his pur- der, heavily npplled, more nearly produced the effect of a suit. Dont you know that? y She stared up at him, quivering In glassy-eye- d for which she No. What Is it? How can was trying. Afterwards she turned jlils arm. !l? Oh, he mustnt see met Never, and smiled doubtfully at the astonnever, never I I made that promise ished dresser. to myself." You Good gracious, Miss West I Jane, you say yourself that you are dont look like yourself at all I" changed, that you are not the girl he Good 1" wants to find." She said goodnight and went rapidly She shook her head desolately down the drafty passages and the con- enough. "Oh, no, Im not." IIe Isnt sure thnt Jane West Is ithe woman he's looking for. Hes following the faintest, the most doubt-jfu- l of trnils. He heard of you from Yarnall; the description of you and your sudden flight made him fairly sure that It must be you Jasper Im talking quite at ranlaughed. dom In a sense, because I haven't a notion, my dear, who you are nor what this Pierre has been In your life. If you could tell me " She shook her head. "No, she said ; no." Very well. Tlien I'll have to go on talking at random. Jane at the Luzy-ranch was a woman who hnd deliberately disguised herself. Jane West In New York is a different woman altogether; but, unless Im very wrong, she Is even more completely disguised from llIerre Landis. If you can convince Pierre that you are Jane West, not any other woman, certulnly not the woman he once knew, arent you pretty eafely rid of him for always? She stood still now. lie felt thnt her fingers were cold. "Yes. For always. I suppose so. But how cun 1 do that, Mr. Morenn?" "Nothing easier. Youre an nctress, aren't you? I advised Pierre Lnndis to stund near the stage exit tonight and watch you get into your motor. Oh, no. Again she clutched at him. But Today I've Come to Give You a Dont dont let him do that ! Hint-r- a Warning." Now, If you will make an effort, look him In the eyes, refuse to show crcte stairs. Jasper was standing Ina single quiver of recognition, speak side the outer door and applauded her. Well done. If It weren't for your to someone In the most artificial tone 1 should you can Imagine, pass him by, and pose and walk, my dear, drive away, why, wouldnt that con- hardly have known yon myself." Joan stood beside him, holding her vince him you aren't his quarry eh? She thought! then slowly drew her- furs close, breathing fast through, the self away and stood, her head bent, parted, painted lips. Is he here, do you know? her brows drawn sharply together. Yes. lie's been waiting. I told "Yes. I suppose so. 1 think 1 can do It. That Is the best plan. She him you might be late. Now, keep looked at him wildly again. Then your head. Bvcrytliing depends upon It will be over for ulwuys, won't It? that. Can jou do it?" lle11 go away? Oh, yes. Is the oar there? I wont He will go have to stop?" Yes, my poor child. "Not an instant. But give him a away, lie told me so. Then, will you so that he'll be sure, tryfto forget him, to live your life for good looking-ove- r Its own beautiful sake? I'd like to and dont change the expression of see you happy, Jane. your eyes. Feel, make yourself fool "Would you? She sndled like a inside, that hes a stranger. You know Why, Ive given up what I mean. Goodnight, my dear. pitying mother. even dreaming of tliut. That Isn't Good luck. Ill call you up as soon us you get home that Is, after Ive what keeps tue going. seen your pursuer safely hack to his What Is !t, .Tone? But this last sentence was She laughed rooms. Oh, a qOeer notion. "A kind of kid's notion, 1 addressed to himself. sadly. Joan opened the door and stepped guess, that If you live along, some way, some time, youll be able to make out Into the chill dampness of the up for things youve done, and that April night. The white arc of electric perhaps therell be another meeting-plac- light beat down upon her as she came a kind of a roundup where forward and It fell as glaringly upon you'll be ht to forgive those you love the figure of Pierre. He had pushed and to be forgiven by them. forward from the little crowd of nonHe was descripts always waiting at a stage Jasper walked about. touched and troubled. Some minutes exit, and stood, bareheaded. Just at CHAPTER X brick-colore- j doll-bab- e Tjie AMERICAN Relief Sure FOR INDIGESTION Childs Best California Laxative Fig is W Syrup 'V. (Copy for Thl Department Supplied bf Ut Ajnerlcan Legion Newa Service ) seen you. She passed 60 close to him that her fur coat touched his hand,1 and she looked into his face with a ADDITIONAL HONORS FOR BLIND VETERAN cool, glitter of a smile.1 "Step aside, please," she said; I must get n." Her voice was unnatuFrank Schoble, blinded World war rally high and quite unnaturally pre-- veteran, and one of the nation's best else. examples of how a disabled man may Iierre said one word, a hopeless become rehabilitated, has won addiword "Joan. It was a prayer. It tional honors. Schobles home is at should have been, Be Joan. Then Wynecote, Pa., but he has been athe stepped back and lie stumbled Into tending the University of Pennsylvania shelter. since 1921. There he won a memberAt the same Instant another man a ship in Phi Beta Kappa, the man In evening dress hastily prevent- scholastic honor that a student highest may reed her man from closing the door. ceive. "Miss West, may I see you home?1' Schoble was blinded five before Before she could speak, could do the armistice as he led hisdays men near more than look, Prosper Gael had Nantillols in the Argonne sector. Rejumped In, the door slammed, the car turning, he resolved to the began Its whirr, and they were glid- school that lie had left thirteen years ing through the crowded, brilliant before to enter business life, only to streets. face many handicaps. Joan had bent forward and was Ilis first obstacle was credit for his rocking to nnd fro. work. Scholastic requireprevious "lie called me Joan," she gasped ments hnd so Increased that though he over nnd over. "He called me Joan.", was In his junior year when he had That was Pierre?" Prosper had left the school, he was given credit been forewarned by Jasper and had but for work covering a year and a planned his part. half. I must go away. If I see him Then another handicap presented again I shall die. I could never do that another time. 0 God! Ills hand Itself. He had not yet learned to read and write by the Braille system, and tom bed me. lie called me Joan . . was forced to have this knowledge to I must go . . continue his studies. lie was not Prosper did not touen her, but his his applications voice, very friendly, very calm, had daunted, however, and won have him most coveted the just an Instantaneous effect. I will take honor of the institution. vou away. Schoble Is an active member of the She laughed shakily. Again?" she American Legion, and has spoken beasked, and shamed him Into silence. fore many Pennsylvania posts of the But after a while he began very1 Without any bitterness against Legion. reasonably, very patiently: I can take you away so that you the fate which shut him off from sight, he said to his comrades: need not be put through this unnecesI see line upon line of khakl-elasary pain. I can arrange it with Morena. If Pierre sees you often enough men, my comrades In the war, going he will be sure to recognize you. Joan! forward In that drive that forced the I did not deserve that again and yon enemy from his position, and that know It. I am a changed man. If you within a few short weeks had expelled don't know that now I have the heart him from the Argonne. That sight to my mind represents of of devotion, of service toward youj the spirit of the American soldiers, Indeed are a blind and you stupid woman. But you do know it. You and of the Legion itself. You are going forward to your objective. must. I feel I have an advantage over all She sat silent beside him, the long and slender hand between her face; you men, with that final picture In my mind. You men here are to me not an an him. I can take you away, he went on assemblage of civilians, but of soldiers, presently, and keep you from Tlerre In Spirit wearing that uniform and gountil he has given tip his search and ing forward. You are going to carry has gone west again. And I can take on until the whole nation of 10,000,000 you at once In a day or two. Your Is In line. No real American Is going to take understudy can fill the part. This enIs can an I end. pride In what others do for him ; he almost at gagement make It lip to Morena. After all. If Is not going to be proud of what he we go, we shall be doing Betty and has done In the past. He Is going to take up the responsibilities of doing him a service. Joan flung out her hands recklessly. more and better things himself." Oh, she cried, what does It matter? Of course Ill go. Id run Into the sea Graves Endowment Fund to escape Pierre " She leaned back Now in Sight of Goal against the cushioned sent, rolled her A generous contribution to the head a little from side to side like a American Legion graves endowment Take me away," she person In pain. fund, which assures decoration in perI I If believe I that repeated. stay the resting place of every shall go mad. Ill go anywhere with petuity for World war hero on foreign soil, has me take anyone. Only away." been received from Mrs. Carrie Yoc-ke- I INOtOlSTjOMl 6 Bell-an- s Hot water Sure Relief EIL-AW-S 25$ AND 75$ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE teG0G5f i6tasnmiRfi indispensable in all cases of Distemper, Influenza, Coughs, Colds, Heaves and Worms among horses and mules. Is Hurry Mother Even a fretful, peevish child loves the pleasant taste of "California Fig Syrup" and it never fails to open the bowels. A teaspoonful today may prevent a sick child tomorrow. 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The Leopardess. brings the fund to more than $158,000, Pierre stood before the cheap bu- In sight of the goal of $200,000 set as Bright Colors Favored reau of his ugly hotel bedroom turn- the Legions aim to accomplish perpetExperiment to determine just why ing a red slip of cardboard about In ual remembrance of every grave on women wear brjght colors and whether The his fingers. sputtering foreign soil. The fun Is administered they dress to please themselves or to above Ids bend threw heavy shadows by n committee made up of all past please friends are now being condown on Ills face. It was the face of natifinal commanders of tlie American ducted mei) at the University of California. hopeless, heartsick youth, the muscles Legion. Mrs. Yockey is the widow of a Civil sagging, the eyes dull, the lips tight DANDELION BUTTER COLOR and pule. Since last night when the war veteran and a gold star morner of Joan's smile of the World war. In acknowledgment contemptuous glitter A harmless vegetable butter color had fallen upon him, lie had neither of the contribution Mr. Tyndall wrote: used by millions for 50 years. Drug slept nor eaten. Jasper had joined The American Legion is proud of stores and general stores sell bottles for 35 cents. Adv. him at the theater exit, had walked Its gold star mothers. Thnt was one of Dandelion home with him, and, while he was Incentive hack of our effort to create with the manager, Pierre's pride and a perpetual graves decoration fund, so Poorer Than the Worm reserve had held him up. Afterward that through their remaining years, "The worm will turn, you know. lie had ranged the city like a prairie the dear little mothers Thats where it has the advantage privileged to wolf, ranged It as tuodgh It had been display the gold star might ever he of me ; I dont know which way to nil unpeopled desert, free to his stride. content In the knowledge that the turn. He had fixed his eyes above and be' grave of their beloved one bore nlwpys yond and walked alone In pain. Potters field is as comfortable a concrete evidence of our pride and Dawn found him again in his room. love nnd theirs." final resting place as the most magWhat hope had sustained him, what nificent mausoleum. memory of Joan, what purpose of ten- Landis Reserves Room derness townrd her these hopes nnd Lift Pain! Off-- No y gas-je- t , memories and purposes now choked and twisted him. lie might have found her, his "gel, his Joan, with her dumb, loving gaze; he might have told her the story of his sorrow in such a way that she, who forgave so easily, would have forgiven even him, nnd hg might have comforted her, holding liet so and so, showing her utterly the true, unchanged, greatly changed love of his chastened heart. This girl, this love of his, whom, in his drunken, jealous madness, he had branded and driven away, he would have brought her back and tended her and made it up to her in a thousand, In ten thousand, ways. Pierre knelt by Ills bed, his black bead buried In the cover, his arms bout above It, his bands clenched. Out there he had never lost hope ot finding her, but here, In this peopled loneliness, with a memory of that womans heartless smile, he did at least despair. In a strange, torturing way she had been like Joan. His heart had jumped to his mouth at first sight ol her. And just there, to his shouldet where her head reached, had Joans dear black head reached, too. Plerrs groaned aloud. The picture of her was so vivid. Not In months had the reality of his gel" come so close to his Imagination. lie could feel her fee! her! O Godt (Tn na naNTiNitKiYk Doesnt hurt one bit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, Instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift It right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the foot calluses, without soreness or irritation. Thompsons HELPFUL 1156 EYEWATER EYE WASH Kiver. Troy. N. 7. Booklet. W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 24. Would Welcome Celibacy Tax Few single Says an old bachelor: men would object to a tax on celibacy, ns they would gladly pay for such a luxury. A new set of teeth doesnt enhance the value of a smile. for Next Convention Mnj. Reed Landis, chairman of the American Legion national committee on areonautlcs, was the first to reserve rooms in the New Nicollet hotel in Minneapolis, to he occupied during the American Legion convention in St. Paul September 15 to 19. The New Nicollet has not yet been opened and is under construction by a firm of Illinois engineers nnd contractors, some of whom are Legion men. Major Landis announced that he was seeking rooms for the convention nnd the architect promised the room reservations r?nde for the Landis party on the blue prints would he validated ns soon as the hotel was thrown open to the public. Many Legionnaires who will visit the convention will stay in Minneapolis hotels in order that St. Paul tuny accommodate the big throng of veterans expected to gather for the reunion. Time Limit Soon Expires American Legion officials are notifying members of the organization who seek to file claims for disability to get these Into the veterans bureau Immediately. A time limit of five years has been set and this period will expire in most veterans cases In a short time. SAY . 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